Evelyn Barrett has a new job, a new baby, and a new life--of sorts. Nearly crushed by the horrific abduction and murder of her daughter (book 1, Unholy Hunger), Evelyn is moving on as best she can. No longer allowed to practice law, she is recruited by one of the detectives from her daughter's case to become a police consultant. Her inaugural case becomes a baptism by fire as she joins the hunt for a chillingly methodical and sadistic serial rapist and murderer. Her revulsion and anger fuels a passion for justice . . . and then it becomes personal. Her friend and law school roommate, Jen, becomes a victim. The rapist has made a catastrophic mistake with Jen: he has left her alive and able to talk. Filled with the chilling tension of Unholy Hunger, Hands of Darknessexplores the emotional and spiritual consequences for all involved when justice and compassion collide head-on with the darkest examples of human depravity.
Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary's mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose--and change--their gender.
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book "This is East Texas, and there's lines.
. . This is a story about loneliness and need for closeness as well' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Ursula K. Le Guin asks, what if gender were not fixed, but serially changeable? . .
A collection of nine critical essays on the modern social science fiction novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
Hands Reaching Out of Darkness
He took her thin shoulders between his hands, held her out from him, green eyes looking into brown, willing her to believe. ... Sun Wolf wondered, watching her depart through an arched doorway into the darkness of the rest of the house, ...
The new king of Camelot wears no shining armor: Arthur and his knights have fallen and a new king rules.
Atlanta: it's the promised city for the off-worlders, foreigners from the alternate dimensions of heaven-like Elysia and hell-like Charbydon.
For countless centuries, I've been the assassin for the infamous Merlin, even though the woman who birthed me sits at the right hand of our enemy, Morgen le Fey.